The Duke Systems Biology Group and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy announce the 1st Annual Duke Systems Biology Symposium, to be held in the Love Auditorium within LSRC on the campus of Duke University on Thursday and Friday, September 14-15, 2006. Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is required for our planning purposes.

Confirmed Speakers

• Alexander Hartemink, Duke University
• Timothy Hughes, University of Toronto
• Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego
• Hao Li, University of California, San Francisco
• Paul Magwene, Duke University
• Iftach Nachman, Harvard University
• Alexander van Oudenaarden, MIT
• Lingchong You, Duke University

Current Schedule (events to be held in and around LSRC Love Auditorium)

Thursday 14 September
10:00	–		Poster Setup
1:15	–	1:30	Opening Remarks
1:30	–	2:30	Timothy Hughes: The functional landscape of gene expression
2:30	–	3:30	Paul Magwene: Intra- and interspecific variation in a complex gene network
3:30	–	4:00	Catered Break
4:00	–	5:00	Hao Li: Combinatorial regulation in yeast transcription networks: From network architecture to dynamics
5:00	–	6:30	Poster Session
6:30	–		Barbeque Dinner
Friday 15 September
8:45	–	9:15	Coffee, Muffins, etc.
9:15	–	10:15	Trey Ideker: Protein network comparative genomics
10:15	–	11:15	Alexander Hartemink: Modeling cell cycle phenomena in synchronized yeast populations
11:15	–	1:00	Catered Lunch
1:00	–	2:00	Iftach Nachman: Realistic reconstruction of regulatory networks: Cell cycle regulation in fission yeast
2:00	–	3:00	Lingchong You: Programming bacterial dynamics using synthetic killer circuits
3:00	–	3:30	Catered Break
3:30	–	4:30	Alexander van Oudenaarden: Noisy cellular decision making: From temporal to spatial choices
4:30	–	5:30	Discussion Session

Registration

Attendance at the symposium is free and open to all, but registration is required for our planning purposes. Please register here.